Went to Hive 76 for their open house night on Wednesday to check out the space. While I was there Jack Zylkin demoed his very cool Arduino based vintage typewriter > USB Keyboard hack, and it’s actually quite ingenious and cool. There are contact relays underneath the main typewriter carriage and he uses magnets for other registers and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Audio’
June 9, 2010
Mass .flac to Apple Lossless (ALAC .m4a) conversion
I have a couple posts going on the back burner, namely the re-foaming process on the 8″ woofer drivers from the Advent Heritage speakers I found in Greenpoint and the Mac Mini media server setup we have going now. But first, say you want to convert all the albums you ripped to FLAC to Apple [...]
November 9, 2009
Advent Heritage Speakers
In what was probably the best street find of the year I found a pair these Advent Heritage towers, in decent shape. The 8″ woofers need to be re-foamed. When I lived in DC I found a pair of old AR’s speakers on Capitol Hill that had the same issue, anyhow, re-foaming doesn’t seem too [...]
